jorge.perez.burgos@ericsson.com wrote:

Full_Name: Jorge Perez Burgos Version: 2.4.35 OS: SLES 11 URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/0001-Don-t-lock-other-threads-while-trying-to-connect-to.patch Submission from: (NULL) (195.235.15.243)

When there is meta proxy traffic to another node and this node becomes unreachable the thread in meta retrying to connect to the remote node locks all the other threads making the slapd unresponsive until the timeout expires. Attach a possible fix ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/0001-Don-t-lock-other-threads-while-trying-to-connect-to.patch

and a backtraceo of some threads when the problem happens:

Thanks, the patch looks OK, committed to git master.